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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [320r] (644/738)
The record is made up of 1 volume (365 folios). It was created in 1919. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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INHABITANTS
633
corn-land or good pasture. In this region, as in others, the
people are in the habit of living out in tents during the harvest
season.
Fowls being universally kept, eggs are commonly obtain
able. Meat, where eaten, is usually mutton ; only Christians
and Jews as a rule eat beef. Cheese is made from the milk of
goats and sheep, as well as from that of cows.
Arab Tribes .—The Arabs of the region are Ma‘azeh (half-
fellahin
Arabic for ‘peasant’. It was used by British officials to refer to agricultural workers or to members of a social class employed primarily in agricultural labour.
), not breeding camels, but asses and a few horses, with
herds of goats, sheep and cattle.
In the SE. of Ardh el-Kerak are the Hejaya, 550 families
(according to Musil) ranging between Seil el-Hesa and Lejjun.
The Nu‘eimat, dispossessed of the greater part of this territory
by the Hejaya, are now a small tribe of about 80 families
with the Khureisheh, another small tribe of about 100
families, next them on the west.
The country W. of these tribes, bounded by Seil el-Hesa,
the Dead Sea, Seil edh-Dhra‘ and a line running ESE. past
Kerak town, was formerly the territory of the El-‘Amr, now
also a dispossessed and reduced tribe of about 100 families.
By the beginning of the nineteenth century the El-‘Amr had
fallen into the debt of the people of Kerak, who, under the
capable leadership of their chief clan the Mejaliyeh, gradually
obtained possession of all their best land and now hold it as far
S. as Dhat-Ras, and ‘Aineh on the N. bank of Seil el-Hesa.
A similar process of ejection was carried out about the middle
of the century against the Hama’ideh or Hamideh, once
chief owners of all the land N. of Kerak. This tribe lost
the country between the town of Kerak and W. Beni Hammad,
with the fine agricultural land on the plateau about Rabbeh,
Qasr Rabbeh, and Shihan, which the Mejaliyeh kept for them
selves. The Keraklyeh thus own the pick of the land along
the plateau for a distance of some 35 miles N. of Seil el-Hesa,
their eastern borders running from J. Shihan to Lejjun, and
thence down to Dhat Ras and ‘Aineh. The Hama’ideh,
however, remain a large tribe of 800 families, since they still
range the wide area from W. Beni Hammad to W. Zerqa
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Admiralty handbook regarding Syria (including Palestine) 'to as far north as the River Orontes and a line Antioch-Aleppo-Meskeneh. For details of the part of Syria beyond this line reference must be made to the Handbook of Asia Minor , Vol. iv, Part 2 (C.B. 847 C).'
'Contents. Chapters:
- I. Boundaries and Physical Survey, p 9 (folio 7)
- II. Climate, p 24 (folio 14v)
- III. Minerals, Flora and Fauna, p 93 (folio 50)
- IV. Military History, p 109 (folio 58)
- V. Inhabitants, p 175 (folio 91)
- VI. Turkish Administration, p 236 (folio 121v)
- VII. Agriculture, p 252 (folio 129v)
- VIII. Industry and Trade, p 276 (folio 141v)
- IX. Currency, Weights and Measures, p 318 (folio 162v)
- X. Jebel Ansarīyeh, p 325 (folio 166)
- XI. Country East of Jebel Ansarīyeh, p 344 (folio 175v)
- XII. Lebanon, Anti-Lebanon, and Damascus Plain, p 357 (folio 182)
- XIII. River Systems of Northern Syria, p 395 (folio 201)
- XIV. Judea and the Southern Desert, p 427 (folio 217)
- XV. Samaria (including Carmel), p 472 (folio 239v)
- XVI. Galilee, p 515 (folio 261)
- XVII. Haurān and Jaulān, p 556 (folio 281v)
- XVIII. 'Ajlūn and Northern Belqa, p 580 (folio 293v)
- XIX. Southern Belqa and Ardh el-Kerak, p 612 (folio 309v)
- XX. El-Jibāl and Esh-Shera, p 636 (folio 321v)
- XXI. The Ghōr (Jordan and the Dead Sea); and Wādi 'Arabah, p 645 (folio 326)
- Appendix: Conventional Spellings, p 668 (folio 337v)
- Index, p 669 (folio 338)
- Plates, p 725' [missing]
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (365 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains a contents page (folio 6) and an index (folios 338-365).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 367; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence. The volume originally contained fourteen plates showing maps, bound into the back of the volume. These are now missing; details of the plates can be found at folio 5v.
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- 'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:366v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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